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ОглавлениеThe process of gaining power employs means that degrade or brutalize the seeker, who wakes to find that power has been possessed at the price of virtue – or moral purpose – lost.
Barbara W. Tuchman
Istanbul, A Meditation
In a turbid dream
I tear out the inside page of a book,
the one on which the library’s date stamp is found.
The book is about them, the ones who’ve died,
the ones who are leaving, who often make
an appearance in dreams, or in foreign cities
look almost exactly like a local inhabitant,
except for speaking a foreign language, looking up
amazed and never returning a greeting, or who
lie outstretched in a glass case in a museum,
staring fixedly through sightless eyes. Their lives
were on loan-lease. Never belonged to them.
Those lives were merely a story; and the Author’s name
in the colophon was found to be a pseudonym.
That name is the one I have sought for ages.
Tonight I read in that borrowed book’s pages
about the lives of my friends, my father
and everyone who happened to cross my path.
About a life borrowed in the library of the Dead.
Joan Hambidge
Translated from Afrikaans by Charl JF Cilliers
